The Rough Guide to Sicily

by Rough Guides

The full-colour The Rough Guide to Sicily is the ultimate travel guide to the Mediterranean's most intoxicating island. Get under the skin of Sicily with inspiring photos, colour-coded maps and up-to-date reviews of hotels, B&Bs, campsites, restaurants, cafés and bars, all fully revised for this tenth edition by our Sicily expert. The Rough Guide to Sicily is jam-packed with practical and honest advice about the best things to see and do. From climbing Mount Etna, scuba diving off Ustica and exploring Greek and Roman relics, to sinking into mud baths on Vulcano and eating your way around Palermo, there's no end of choice - we'll help you make up your mind, and recommend the best beaches to hit while you do so. Make the most of your time on Earth with The Rough Guide to Sicily .

Genres: Travel, Italy, Nonfiction

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Radiantflux · Rating 4 out of 5]

54th book for 2017

I am a big fan of the Rough Guide series, and after reading it cover-to-cover, have many interesting ideas for a forthcoming two week visit to Sicily.

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good guide to Sicily. Lots of tips and detail.

[Carlo Mazzanti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful. Everyone needs to have seen sicily. Cannelloni are the food of the gods.

[Wendy Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this in preparation for our trip to Sicily in April, will be Siracusa in particular. The book has been an excellent source of information.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

In early February I finished the Rough Guide to Sicily. This book follows a similar format but encompasses the whole of Italy, including Sicily. Some of the Sicily information is obviously repeated, and some is left out in this guide, which clearly needed to pare back the detail so as to keep the guide manageable. It still ran to 1065 pages, so it is pretty massive, covering everything you need to know for a visit to any part of Italy.

The most interesting parts for me were the sites the writer thought as the most outstanding in the country, as well as notes on food, culture and history. There is even a language guide in this book, although it is not the best place to go if you want to learn Italian.

All in all it was too detailed for one reading and I confess I skipped through as many as 300 pages or so of detailed notes about individual towns. That, no doubt, is what the writer expected though. If visiting those locations you need that information, and if not, then the overviews are better.

This will remain on my kindle as a reference work throughout the rest of my virtual walk through Italy, and I will be reading some of the pages I skipped when I get near those towns.

There is certainly nothing wrong with this excellent guide to Italy.